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Dear father and mother:
West Gate 2, 1-54,
January 15, 1935.
#" Yesterday we had the firstiheavy snow
of the winter.% So farathis has'been thesraildest winter I have
seen in Korea- and apparently the mildest in many years. If
'it were like this every winter I would not dre^d their coding.
But surely.some"really cold weather will followtthis big snow.
We have saved sL great d£al of fuel already, and'.cit has been a
blessing to the boor pebple. But the dealers in wood and coal
\mmA 4b •*• X
no doubt have been sorry. The wood fuel industrv must be?a
big one in the city in the winter. Acres and acres of ground
in the railroad yards near the Seoul station are biled high with
fire wood. You never saw so much in one nlace in Your life.
mm m*
'Christmas cards continue to come. ^The
past few days one from Dr. and Irsw Stephenson, the Heilmans,
and from Clarence Wright, and others. vesterday a notice came
from the Publishing House in Nashville saying they were out of
the book I had ordered, but they were sending*it direct from
the publishers. And this note was attached: %lEnclose a gift
card with words fFrom lth£ Wesley Women's Bible Class of Trinity
Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Calif.c? I appreciate this very
much. The book has not comefyet, butlwhen it does I shall write
my thanks to the cl*ss. l " ^ ' "
.P.
ve3terday acceding +o alpromisefto Bro.
Anderson of Songdo I^went down to Songdo, taking the 3 a.m.
train from Seoul. It wasf^arm and nloudy, "but not snowing when
I left here,- but half way there it began to snow heavily, and at
Songdo people we'^efout shoveling snowwoff the streets. Bro.
Anderson had nothing particular to say; just some more about the
many possIbilitiesT,and great'n£eds for work in and about Songdo.
" mm. Vl -* \ 'J
With fifty-thousand people in.the cit^ and manv thousands more
in the surrounding country'and himself the only man missionary'
his help!' 3 3 3ie i 3 was vex^y depressing,wand he sometimes felt that
if reenforcementsfwere not sent, he would have to leave.. lOur
boys' high school there has rc;0 students and no missionary in
charge. There oueht'to be somebody"responsible for keeping up
the Christian tone of the school, certainly, but. I don't know
that Iwamftlie one to do it." The field is simply undermanned,
and we have to get along the best we can, until others are sent.
p o*v" ' £- Over against these needsfin-Songdo I
cannot help but think of the four or fitfe hundred thousand in
Seoul, and I am the oni^ Methodist missionary wholly engaged
in evangelistic work, and there are only +wo or three Presbyterian men doing that work in Seoul. And there are ten or twelve
thousand high school boys in Seoul, and only one-person outside
of teachers especially devoting his time to their Christianizing
I feel very sorry for Bro. Anderson;ohe is a fine man, and a
good fundamental,-gospel preacher, and his wife is a very sweet
woman. But I cannot say I want to go to Songdo. Perhaps I
had better keep still and let the Conference do what it will.
I After talking to the Korean principal of
the Songdo High School, I came back to Seoul on +he afternoon

Dear father and mother:
West Gate 2, 1-54,
January 15, 1935.
#" Yesterday we had the firstiheavy snow
of the winter.% So farathis has'been thesraildest winter I have
seen in Korea- and apparently the mildest in many years. If
'it were like this every winter I would not dre^d their coding.
But surely.some"really cold weather will followtthis big snow.
We have saved sL great d£al of fuel already, and'.cit has been a
blessing to the boor pebple. But the dealers in wood and coal
\mmA 4b •*• X
no doubt have been sorry. The wood fuel industrv must be?a
big one in the city in the winter. Acres and acres of ground
in the railroad yards near the Seoul station are biled high with
fire wood. You never saw so much in one nlace in Your life.
mm m*
'Christmas cards continue to come. ^The
past few days one from Dr. and Irsw Stephenson, the Heilmans,
and from Clarence Wright, and others. vesterday a notice came
from the Publishing House in Nashville saying they were out of
the book I had ordered, but they were sending*it direct from
the publishers. And this note was attached: %lEnclose a gift
card with words fFrom lth£ Wesley Women's Bible Class of Trinity
Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Calif.c? I appreciate this very
much. The book has not comefyet, butlwhen it does I shall write
my thanks to the cl*ss. l " ^ ' "
.P.
ve3terday acceding +o alpromisefto Bro.
Anderson of Songdo I^went down to Songdo, taking the 3 a.m.
train from Seoul. It wasf^arm and nloudy, "but not snowing when
I left here,- but half way there it began to snow heavily, and at
Songdo people we'^efout shoveling snowwoff the streets. Bro.
Anderson had nothing particular to say; just some more about the
many possIbilitiesT,and great'n£eds for work in and about Songdo.
" mm. Vl -* \ 'J
With fifty-thousand people in.the cit^ and manv thousands more
in the surrounding country'and himself the only man missionary'
his help!' 3 3 3ie i 3 was vex^y depressing,wand he sometimes felt that
if reenforcementsfwere not sent, he would have to leave.. lOur
boys' high school there has rc;0 students and no missionary in
charge. There oueht'to be somebody"responsible for keeping up
the Christian tone of the school, certainly, but. I don't know
that Iwamftlie one to do it." The field is simply undermanned,
and we have to get along the best we can, until others are sent.
p o*v" ' £- Over against these needsfin-Songdo I
cannot help but think of the four or fitfe hundred thousand in
Seoul, and I am the oni^ Methodist missionary wholly engaged
in evangelistic work, and there are only +wo or three Presbyterian men doing that work in Seoul. And there are ten or twelve
thousand high school boys in Seoul, and only one-person outside
of teachers especially devoting his time to their Christianizing
I feel very sorry for Bro. Anderson;ohe is a fine man, and a
good fundamental,-gospel preacher, and his wife is a very sweet
woman. But I cannot say I want to go to Songdo. Perhaps I
had better keep still and let the Conference do what it will.
I After talking to the Korean principal of
the Songdo High School, I came back to Seoul on +he afternoon